Monday, January 29, 2018

So friends, the mom picked Wellness CORE Simply Shreds for us to review together and Chewy.com sent it to us free of charge for our honest opinion. We, (well, the mom) chose this because you see, I have separation anxiety and we are always looking for things to help with that. Let me explain.

I take lots of anxiety pills (plus an antibiotic because I had a pain in my butt, yes an infected anal glad) so I need something extra yummy to get all of those meds in me.

I get car sick so on hiking days mom cannot feed me breakfast with my pills before we leave because I will hurl it up in th car. We need something portable to take along so I can eat it with my medicines when we get to the hike. It has to be something VERY tasty or I will spit the pill right out.

So we are packing this up with the hiking gear.

Here we are in the parking lot at the hike and OMD, what is this scrumptious aroma?

Give me my bowl!

Nom Nom Nom Nom Nom Nom

Uh oh. One pill left and there was no getting it in me so mom says this food was a FAIL for taking pills on the road. A thicker pate type of food works better for the pills. So she says.

So we will try something else. This is me home alone in my crate on 3 different medicines that well, apparently don't help much at all. I have to be in my crate because I FREAK OUT if I am loose and mom pulls out of the driveway in her car. She drove around the block once and came back and caught me starting mass destruction in the kitchen. Yikes. My crate is in the basement because I make such a mess in it with my bedding but it's dark down there and mom leaves a radio on for me. And apparently a spy cam. I mostly do this in the crate for 4 hours straight while mom is at work. She works from home in the afternoons so I don't have to have crate time all day.

So, the mom's next bright idea was to use the Wellness CORE Simply Shreds to stuff my Kong with because well, I LOVE the taste and I always get something extra special frozen in my Kong for home alone crate time. (Note from mom: On work days, half his food with pills for breakfast, the other half in a frozen Kong.)

Mixing it with kibble after mom squirted the juices everywhere opening the pouch. Hey, I am not complaining. I got to lick it up off the floor.

Stuffing it in the Kong and mom was saying words not fit for a dog's delicate ears because juices kept dripping out the other end.

Look at me calmly working that Kong, BOL. Now it doesn't last for 4 hours but sometimes it gives me an hour of not freaking out.

So the bottom line is, mom is not fond of it at all. She thinks there is way too much watery juice, it squirts out when opening the pouch even if you cut it open with scissors, it's impossible to get all of the chicken shreds out of the bottom of the pouch and it comes in a pouch that is not recyclable. Well, that is just her opinion and what does she know? I pawsonally think it tastes super good. So deal with mom, OK?

Tuesday, January 9, 2018

Friends, this winter has been hideous, GRRRRR. We had -10 wind chills and I did not even want to go out to pee. We had not hiked in 3 weeks and my B&B was full of Howliday guests. I had a bad case of the deadly cabin fever.

Finally on Sunday the last of my howliday B&B guests left and I was free to do my Chewy.com review.

The mom wasn't sure about this because I am a hard chewer. I killed a plugged in heating pad in 2 minutes flat. Yes, made mincemeat out of it I did. (But I did unplug it first, I am not totally stupid you know.) OK so give me this bone with REAL BACON (drool!) and let me prove to you that I can make mincemeat out of this, too.

But you know what? I was a little confuzzled. It was heavy and loud when I dropped it and I was not quite sure how to approach this.

At 11:30 AM I tried to warm up to this bacon-flavored delicacy but quite frankly, we thought this might be a huge fail.

Well, I tell you, it took me a full half an hour but once I got the hang of it, I really got into this Benebone.